Gabriel Vargas

Gabriel Vargas was born in Tulancingo, Hidalgo in 1918. His father died young, and his mother had a hard time keeping her 11 children alive during the years of Depression. In 1930, through a stroke of luck, Gabriel Vargas' drawing talent was noticed by the Director of the Institute of Fine Arts, who offered to give the boy an art education in France. Vargas wished to stay with his family however, and asked to get a job as an artist on magazine Excélsior. At the age of sixteen, he won a contest and was asked to create his first comic strip.

This became 'Superlocos', a counterweight to 'Supersabios' which was produced by German Butze at that same time. Gabriel Vargas came up with 'La Familia Burrón' in 1948. It became Mexico's most popular comics magazine of the 1950s and 1960s and was drawn by Vargas until 1971. Since 1978 Vargas has been running his own publishing company, that still prints the Famila Burron magazine. He received the National Prize of Journalism in 1983.